Contemplations on comments · 10:37pm Sep 15th, 2012
I know this comes totally out of left field, but isn't it always a deeply weird experience to be reading through the comments on a blog, especially comments that are apolitical and informative, and you stumble over comments that are tangential and irrelevant? My contemplations here are driven by a blog entry I read of late where the blogger was announcing his delight that a famous science-fiction author had reversed his policy on derivative works. You get several comments in which people are talking about fanfics, other authors they wish would change their minds, the author's work... and then, two random one-after-another comments casually remarking that the author was a bigoted racist homophobe and another laboring under the odd belief that the author's work was advocacy of genocide. These two comments were just bizarre for me because they seemed to have nothing to do with the topic (well, perhaps the second did) and the first one was just someone being a troll.
Now, this isn't something specific to blogs, mind you; I've see YouTube recordings of instrumental music where the comments turn into a debate on Christianity. It's just... odd to me and it's very tempting to just tell the irrelevant commentators to pipe down, even if it'd be pointless and just start a fight.
Given enough time/misfortune, any discussion on the internet will devolve into this.
Too much to say, too litle time. What better place to say it than a practically anonymous website?
361248 361733 All true, all true.